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Following outrage against ESL’s controversial decision to sign an exclusivity deal with Facebook; FaceIt have reportedly signed a similar deal with mobile giant Snapchat, which is likely to include the upcoming London major. While there has been no signatures made yet, reportedly, the move is estimated to be worth around $3,200,000 and upcoming FaceIt events,…

Despite facing huge amounts of criticism from supporters over the past few weeks, the Virtus Pro organisation has surprised pundits within the CS:GO scene by offering their full squad a contract for a further five years. The decision comes after Virtus Pro have fallen to the 13th place on the HLTV rankings and have waited…

Shocking news has emerged in the North American scene as Liquid star Elige has announced his decision to follow in-game leader Stanislaw to join the up and coming Splyce side, following serious allegations from his ex-teammate Hiko. “It was about a month after Hiko left,” s1mple told Thorin in a reflections video, “That I…

After the great success from Team Astralis, following their decision to hire a sports psychologist to help with choking – Cloud9 have announced that they have hired their own Sports Pharmacist with the hope that they will help “ease their minds”. The decision was announced, like most North American news, via OpTic Gaming’s Tarik –…

Following a shocking upset from Danish team, Heroic, Virtus Pro looked to be on the short path towards home from the Spandex Arena for the first time in history. However, ESL have thrown a curve-ball to the fans by announcing that they will be heading to the Quarter-Finals under the new “wildcard” spot. “The wildcard…

Earlier today, it was announced that ESL was hiring critically acclaimed TV producer, David Hill, to work on some of their tournaments. Just hours ago, the company revealed that their upcoming tournament “WESA Katowice 2017” will be using a new “Pay-Per-Round” technology. “It’s an extremely great system,” one of the ESL execs told us in…

SK Gaming vs. Astralis was an incredible game played at the ELeague Major which saw two of the favourites of the tournament collide and Round 14 was, perhaps, the best round of Counter-Strike ever played. Global Defensive has gathered a team of analysts to guide you through exactly why this was such an amazing round.…

With the ELeague Major just days away, Global Defensive has worked tirelessly for a break-free 20 minutes to bring you all the information you need to fully understand the amazing story-lines that are to be expected on the analyst desk at the ELeague Major, listed in to simple bullet points to appeal to the widest…

WESG has concluded with EnvyUs taking away the trophy from the insane tournament which has already been crowned “the 4th best event of 2017 so far”. However, WESG have recently released a statement apologising to the French side as they have accidentally made the transaction of the $800,000 in to the Tyloo bank account. “We…

On the same day that the ex-Dignitas squad have announced their signing with FC Copenhagen, the Brazilian SK Gaming team have made an announcement of their own; they will now play under the Manchester United banner. José Mourinho (the manager of Manchester United, as most CS:GO neck beards won’t know) spoke to Global Defensive in…

It’s been a breakout year from young star s1mple, who won the hearts of many fans when he managed to do the impossible and make NA almost win something. However, the year is coming to an end with a spiral of drama after Valve have announced that s1mple will no longer be allowed to participate…